Here is the Monday listing from the Minneapolis Tribune from 50 years ago today. The full day listings for the PBS stations are included. Notice some very specific educational programming. You don't see targeted programming like that today, and probably with good reason. TV stations are "broadcasting," not "narrowcasting."
In prime time, "Gunsmoke" was beginning the 19th of its 20-year run on CBS, and Lucille Ball's "Here's Lucy" was beginning its sixth and final year. "Here's Lucy" was not the same as "I Love Lucy." The listing for "Dick Van Dyke" was also not the show you're thinking of but "The New Dick Van Dyke Show." Like "Here's Lucy," "New Dick" was kinda bland, riding on the coattails and carryover charm of the previous shows.
After Dom Deluise's "Lotsa Luck at 7:00 PM on NBC, came "Diana," a comedy starring Diana Rigg, late of "The Avengers" and 40 years later, would be the grand dame Olenna Tyrell on "Game of Thrones." "Diana" was essentially following the Mary Tyler Moore, workplace, homelife, sex drive formula, and it was the drop-dead gorgeous, 35-year-old Rigg's first and only attempt at TV comedy, and it would be gone after 15 episodes.
Shecky Green was the guest host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." If I recall, Carson worked Tuesday through Friday and left Mondays for guest hosts. Notice that "Tonight" was 90 minutes long back then and it was the only talk show in late night.
Tomorrow: The reason I kept this edition of the Minneapolis Tribune's TV Week for 50 years.
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